“I think asking the question ‘who cares?’ is part of any writing project,” Susan Orlean says over coffee on the Valley side of the Hollywood Hills. In her delightfully written new memoir, “Joyride” — ...

Once you’ve interviewed as many people as Susan Orlean has, you start to crave what she calls “counterprogramming.” Every magazine profile has its setting; every setting suggests activities that a ...

Susan Orlean had recently moved to Los Angeles and was taking a tour of the main branch of that city’s public library when the man guiding her around took a book off a shelf, cracked it open, and ...

And now, the game where we ask interesting people about things that do not interest them at all. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: Susan Orlean is one of the most successful nonfiction authors in America ...

A more accurate title for Susan Orlean's collection of essays On Animals might be On Animals Used Or Exploited by Humans. Yet many of the 16 pieces that make up this book — all except the introduction ...

Orlean, who has long been an admirer of our four-legged friends, reflects on the relationships between humans, pets, wild creatures, and even the animals we eat. The stories cover topics from ...

This week in the magazine, Susan Orlean writes about raising chickens in a back yard. Today, Orlean answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of the discussion follows. THE NEW YORKER: ...

Author Susan Orlean was inspired by 1980s rocker Jon Bon Jovi when writing about a prize-winning pooch. When penning her 1995 essay about show dog Biff Truesdale — included in her new collection, “On ...

As a reporter, Susan Orlean doesn’t wear her love for animals on her sleeve. Who could afford to get overly attached in this cruel world? Baby tigers can be procured over the internet, the northern ...